The following provides additional details on some key products to be available at the time of the Language of work release. Together, they will provide main findings, important messages, latest trends and additional background information.

The Daily article: This article will include the main results for language of work in Canada in 2016 at the national, provincial and territorial levels, as well as for some large census metropolitan areas (CMAs).

Census in Brief: This short article will focus on topics of current interest that raise important issues relevant from a public policy perspective:

Languages of work in Canada

Highlight tables: They present focused information for various levels of geography. These tables allow users to perform simple rank and sort functions and include percentage distributions and percentage changes from previous censuses to facilitate comparisons between years, and different geographic areas.

Data tables: These cross-tabulations allow for a more detailed examination of Canada, by comparing up to eight variables across various levels of geography.

Census Profile: This product provides key statistics about the dwellings and the people living there. Users are able to select a standard geographic area and compare two geographic areas. They can search by place name or postal code for an area of interest as large as Canada or as small as a grouping of city blocks.

Focus on Geography Series: This product presents highlights through short text, tables and figures for various release topics and levels of geography, including Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas (CMAs), census agglomerations (CAs) and Canadian municipalities (census subdivisions).

Languages Reference Guide: This guide explains census concepts and definitions. It also includes information about data quality and historical comparability, as well as comparisons with other data sources.

Guide to the Census of Population, 2016: This reference document provides an overview of the 2016 Census of Population processes, including content determination, collection, processing, data quality assessment, data dissemination and data suppression. It also includes response rates, global non-response rates, the distribution of the number of census subdivisions for which data have been published by province and territory and at the national level, as well as other data quality information.

Census Dictionary: This provides detailed definitions of census concepts, variables and geographic terms, as well as historical information to facilitate the comparison between census years.

Social media activities with this release

Facebook and Twitter: The official social media accounts will also be used to communicate and engage with the public for the dissemination of results from the 2016 Census of Population.

Chat with an expert: Users are invited to chat with Statistics Canada experts on the topics of Language of work, Journey to work, and Mobility and migration, on December 4, 2017, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Eastern time. For more information, refer to Statistics Canada's website: Chat with an expert.

5. Products available after release

The following products will be available with later releases:

Analytical products

Articles in Insights on Canadian Society (ICS)

Data visualization tool. More information about this initiative will be made available during the release cycle.

Data products

Additional data tables at various levels of geography

2016 Census Aboriginal Population Profile

2016 Census Individuals Public Use Microdata File (PUMF)

2016 Census Hierarchical Public Use Microdata File (PUMF)

2016 Census Long-form Research Data Centre (RDC) Microdata File

Reference products

Reference guides (various topics)

Technical reports

6. 2016 Census Program web module

To access the 2016 Census of Population products, please consult the 2016 Census Program web module.

7. 2016 Census Program release schedule

Release dates, 2016 Census Program

Release date

Release topic

November 16, 2016

Geography

February 8, 2017

Population and dwelling counts

May 3, 2017

Age and sex

Type of dwelling

May 10, 2017

Census of Agriculture

August 2, 2017

Families, households and marital status

Language

September 13, 2017

Income

October 25, 2017

Immigration and ethnocultural diversity

Housing

Aboriginal peoples

November 29, 2017

Education

Labour

Journey to work

Language of work

Mobility and migration

8. Contact information

General enquiries

1-800-263-1136 – Canada and the United States only 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (time zones within Canada)

Media Relations – Media Hotline

More information

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Standards of service to the public

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